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Not a lot to say about myself. Worked as GP in valleys, then public health something to do with data of health events. Ignored mainly, you're advised to do the same. Meanwhile if you fancy seeing what I'm thinking this is quite a good place happy to be corrected as I don't know as much as I think I do. It's a common male fault. 🤣

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augieray, (edited ) to random
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People lie about infections and . Very disappointing STUDY:

"About 75% reported concealing illness in interpersonal interactions, possibly placing others in harm’s way. Concealment motives were largely social (e.g., wanting to attend events like parties) and achievement oriented (e.g., completing work objectives). Disease concealment appears to be a widely prevalent behavior by which concealers trade off risks to others in favor of their own goals."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976231221990

epistatacadam,
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@augieray be interesting to know if their employer pays for them to stay home if unwell! If not then rich people are encouraging for profit motive the concealment of infectious illness. Colds, D&V, as well as the classic Communicable diseases are spread person to person.
Even in UK many parents can't stay home if children are ill, as their work counts up the days off, and then sacks them, once a threshold passed. It even happens in the NHS.

mrtazz, to random
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This passage from @debcha's "How Infrastructure works" is such a truth that often gets forgotten or ignored on the hunt for profit. It's a very familiar and recurring theme in resilience engineering texts and research. And it also rings true for me in this current trend of continuous layoffs that take more and more slack and capacity out of tech systems being maintained (in addition to the human cost) as remaining humans need to do more work in the same amount of time.

epistatacadam,
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@debcha @Tallish_Tom @mrtazz for those not aware of Cook's work he was an anaesthetist, and was drawing on his experiences in healthcare. Basically despite everything improviement methodology advocates say, health and other human systems aren't factories, so drawing lessons from production line optimization is fraught, and may have adverse consequences on patient/user/customer outcomes.

kcarruthers, (edited ) to random
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Wonder if ABC will ever do this to? BBC Finally [2019] Insists Opaquely Funded Think Tanks Declare their Interests: After Carole Cadwalladr challenged Director General Tony Hall over dark money lobbyists, the BBC have responded with new guide lines. – Byline Times

https://bylinetimes.com/2019/08/30/bbc-finally-insists-opaquely-funded-think-tanks-declare-their-interests/

epistatacadam,
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@kcarruthers not sure in practice the ExDGs effort had any effect.
Though there is a tagline, that they refuse to disclose their funding, there is no discussion as to why they are so secretive. Further, they still seem to pop up as frequently as before, and they are rarely challenged as much as their openents are, IMHO.
Perhaps the influence of the current board +/- DG is being felt by directors and editors?

NormanDunbar, to random
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How much worse does the get?

BBC News: Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal
BBC News - Post Office plan to sack Horizon IT reviewer kept secret, documents reveal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68079300

epistatacadam,
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@NormanDunbar with government knowledge, this was in effect endorsed by government led by the current foreign secretary and his Chancellor and continued even until ITV made it impossible.
Sometimes MSM gets it right!

epistatacadam,
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@NormanDunbar Didn't mean it was just ITV. The whole MSM, is Private Eye and Computer Weekly main stream?, have served us the population well, unlike the legal and political system. But of course they won't be investigated and punished. The very wealthy politicians involved should like Fujitsu contribute to the compensation due to these victims of a stitch up.

fkamiah17, to random
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When did this become a thing? If you think it's Covid, do a test. If they've got a temperature, keep them off. Everything else should be blindingly obvious.
GPLB: "MPs call for public information campaign so parents know when mildly-ill children should go to school"
Side note: I'd have to be bleeding out of my eyes or barf up a lung before I got a day off school.
Also: FFS make vaccinations mandatory again!

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 immunisation was only mandatory for a short while and for smallpox. Rvidence shows that in GB uptake improved when voluntary, and strongly supported by Health Visitors, District Nurses, and GPs. Funnily enough those groups have all been decimated to save hospital output. Result is increased demand on hospitals and reduced immunisation, so increased outbreaks.
We need to invest in primary care services (mostly staff, perhaps by recognising market forces & pay them more; as with CEOs!)

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Sadly despite all 's efforts to wreck the site formally known as Twitter, X remains the third most visited online site in the US after Instagram & Facebook....

I wonder what such a comparison would look like in Europe or Africa or Asia?

Anyone have any up-to-date data to share?

epistatacadam,
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@ChrisMayLA6 many organisations insist on members using it. Eg. Royal Statistical Society sections, many NHS organisations, Universities and HMG itself, perhaps if they stopped using it and like started using their own federated servers, the news organisations would follow.

Perhaps gov edict has gone out to continue to fund the evil bird.

epistatacadam,
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@simon_lucy @ChrisMayLA6 fair point but at least it's experimenting with alternatives.
My personal beef with the goes back to the merger of News department with Current Affairs. The first being about garnering facts, the Second about garnering and promoting some Opinions.

Hence, the false equivalence that still dogs reporting of anthropogenic planetary heating, Brexit, and Post Office reportage for over 20 years.
It appears the last bastions of news in UK are & .

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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'Since 2020, the richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer. Hardship & hunger are a daily reality for many people worldwide. At current rates, it will take 230 years to end poverty, but we could have our first trillionaire in 10 years'!

@oxfam latest report on focusses on the role of as the engines of the widening gap between rich & poor!

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/inequality-inc-how-corporate-power-divides-our-world-and-the-need-for-a-new-era-621583/

epistatacadam,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @oxfam on past performance, the experts will simply get together and change the definition of poverty.
Don't believe me, the definition of unemployed was changed to 'improve' the data.
Currently, UK gov just makes the data up to suit itself.
Hence the regular concerns of the national statistician

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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David Cameron, expert in International Law 🙄

Trevor Philips: "Do you agree with the South Africans that Israel has a case to answer before the International Court of Justice?"

David Cameron: "No, I absolutely don't.... it's nonsense.."

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 if a provisional ruling is granted he will have to eat a large dose of humble pie.
Let's hope the court gives such a provisional ruling soon so he can't run away from it.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Andrea Leadsom says [on QT] all politicians “are in politics to help their communities & make the world around them a better place.”

hears "Send in the Clowns" playing in the background

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 @ChrisMayLA6 I suspect he left out the "c" before the "m"!

epistatacadam, to random
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On PM @BBCRadio4 listening to the discussion about the problem of execs concentrating on shareholder value, exemplified by, but not unique to, Boeing currently, 17:40ish, I wondered if any leading politicians were listening. Seems to me that since Mrs T's worship of monetary policy Britain has gone from being a sound trusted partner, to a laughing stock.
Perhaps a new chancellor should consider changing the argument from good money, to supporting good policy by making possible, by funding it.

fkamiah17, (edited ) to random
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Also on 8th January:
"[Israeli] forces inflicted the highest daily ­Palestinian death toll so far this year" (source: Times of Israel)
"Israel’s assault on Gaza intensified over the past 24 hours, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, with 249 Palestinians killed, and another 510 injured" (via Guardian)
"2mn+ Palestinians in Gaza are facing daily threats to their existence (Martin Griffiths, UN, via Mirror)
IDF deaths: 9 (most rcent update)

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 no mention of the unjustified killing of Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank, and the murderous actions of "settlers"! Often with IDF support and we know they happily slaughter Israeli Jews as well, including a Prime Minister and more recently an off duty policeman who responded to a terrorist attack, and hostages in Gaza who were seeking succour and rescue by IDF.

fkamiah17, to random
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Does this mean South Africa can have a constant stream of footage coming out of Gaza running in the background during the hearing? 🤬

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 deliberate obscuration of the issue. No one doubts that what was done on Oct 7 was a crime. Though apparently some of the deaths were the result of IDF fire or carelessness. The punishment of those involved is not a crime. But how was it a capital offence for 10,000 children, who weren't involved? An eye for an eye but not one bit more is my reading of Jewish law, though I'm not of that race.

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 agreed, though if Israel engaged with ICJ and by implication ICC, presumably it agrees to abide by any ruling it gives, including perhaps surrendering any individuals named by ICJ to be tried in ICC for crimes it appears they have committed.
Now that would be progress, though considering who that would entail, it's unlikely to happen.

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 you're right of course, but the failure to comply to ICC would be a problem for senior and those unimportant to Israeli gov, as presumably arrest warrants could be issued and most countries accept them. So travel severely limited.

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 oh well it seemed a worthwhile hope. I pray it amounts to something, in due course. We can't go on like this with children being slaughtered just keep rich crooks in power.

NationCymru, to random
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If we call Wales, Cymru, what will we call ourselves? https://nation.cymru/opinion/if-we-call-wales-cymru-what-will-we-call-ourselves/

epistatacadam,
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@NationCymru I'm a great believer in evolution, so I suggest we start with the four you listed and let the best survive! Not everything has to be settled in advance or centrally. It may turn out that different bits of Cymru will use different words, perhaps even some new ones, and I expect the English will do exactly what they always do: ignore everyone else!

epistatacadam, to random
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Listening to Idris Elba being questioned on how to fund youth services, on @BBCRadio4 . He overlooked as did his questioner, that HMG has announced it is going to cut taxes for the rich (and has relaxed bonus caps for the best paid, whilst cutting low pay & benefits). Perhaps, the billions to be spent on the rich, could be invested in children instead. That is much more likely to result in improvement in Britain than giving people with too much money, even more.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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A small but significant global movement is seeking to make free to use as a central plank to urbanism.

as the Guardian point out:

'Flourishing & accessible public transport systems are an essential feature of sustainable 21st-century living. They are a means of social inclusion & wellbeing, helping to generate a sense of place and collective belonging'!

Being free from fares can be a big part of this... but in the UK we're wedded to an altogether different model!

epistatacadam,
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@bluGill @ChrisMayLA6 perhaps better to give the poor enough to pay the small fare, if they want to, or to save and buy a bike. Cycle friendly cities, save more car drivers lives than cyclists, and speed up travel times.....

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Paula Vennells giving evidence to a Parliamentary committee claiming there was "no evidence of miscarriages of justice" in the Horizon/Fujitsu scandal.

https://twitter.com/lukedepulford/status/1743550225350828475

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 was she under oath? Even if not clearly a dishonour to parliament, by misleading it.

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 no but they think they have and seem to take misleading themselves very seriously, they have a committee especially to check that people don't!....🤣😊😊

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Literally every tweet he ever puts out gets community noted.
Remember yesterday's tax cut announcement? Here's what happens when an actual financial expert (Martin Lewis) gives it a road test:

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 could ICO step in and stop Conservative Central abusing PI like this, it's gathering it by what looks like deception. So it's breaking the first rule of all data holding or handling. The data must have been collected openly and honestly.
But since it's the PM I'm guessing ICO will look the other way.

JugglingWithEggs, to eattherich
@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social avatar

Man who is married to a multi billionaire says he will make those who are on benefits and disabled pay for the tax cuts he wants to bribe the electorate with before an election.

He fails to acknowledge impact of years of his party’s austerity on people’s incomes and mental health (most benefit claimants are in work) and there has been a pandemic that has massively impacted the long term health of those aged 50+.



http://tinyurl.com/yhxpazdd

epistatacadam,
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@JugglingWithEggs you left out that for the first time since 1949 certainly, the trend towards ever longer life expectancy was halted in 2012 and has now reversed for all UK regions except London and SE.
Poverty kills people and bankers get rewarded for doing it.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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BREAKING: Conservative MP and former energy minister Chris Skidmore resigns the Conservative whip in protest over new legislation which will allow greater fossil fuel extraction in the North Sea.

He also says he’ll resign from Parliament “as soon as possible.”
via Lewis Goodall

Another by election's in the offing, lads 🙄

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 can we get fishy to lose his majority before May? It's beginning to look like he may not be able to choose the date of the election after all.

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